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Mosopia Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Noctuidae Genus: Mosopia Type species Mosopia megaspila
Francis Walker. 1866Species Mosopia megaspila
Mosopia magniplaga
Mosopia eudoxusalis
Mosopia cassiusalis[1]Mosopia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-east Asia, including Thailand, Borneo and Malaysia[2]. The genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 from a specimen in the British Museum. The specimen Walker describes was from Penang in Malaysia.[3]
Walker gave Mosopia megaspila as a type species. This species has a wingspan of 39 millimetres (1.5 in) with a large distinctive black spot in the middle of each forewings (hence the name megaspila, which means "large spotted"). There are three other species classified under the Mosopia genus.[4]
References
- ^ The last is disputed and was synonymized with M. eudoxusalis by Robert Poole in 1989. See Lödl's article
- ^ "Herminiinae". Digital Moths of Asia. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/80_Noctuidae/02_Herminiinae/framepage%20Herminiinae.html.
- ^ Walker, Francis (1866). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. London: Edward Newman. pp. 1187–1188. http://books.google.com/books?id=_dw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=1187. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011.
- ^ Lödl, M. (2002). "Notes on the genus Mosopia WALKER, [1866 1865 with redescription of the type-species M. megaspila WALKER, [1866] 1865 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Herminiinae)"]. Quadrifina (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) 5: 21–26. http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Quad_5_0021-0026.pdf. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011.
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